e poor people are the ones they appeal to and they have always wanted to plunder the rich." So, in one view, the U.S. felt they must be overcome, to protect our doctrine that the rich should ravage the poor. This became another motivation for the Cold War.

that the Soviets possessed 175 divisions, several hundred bombers capable of flying missions against the British Isles, 300 submarines and a substantial tactical air force. Heilbrunn states, "It Is easy enough now to scoff at the apprehensions felt by Truman and Acheson, but the threat that the Kremlin posed was the threat of intimidation and the ability to strike decisively is a seizure of power was possible. Indeed, it was Stalin's approval of North Korea's attack on South Korea in 1950 that finally provoked an American military buildup." (Heilbrunn) While John F. Kennedy was running for president, he charged Eisenhower with complacency in letting Russia create a "missile gap." According to Michael Moore, Kennedy was relying on "misinterpreted intelligence... worst case scenarios, anti-Soviet hysteria, and cynical domestic political calculation." (Moore) Messages similar to Kennedy's were compounded with hysteria in the media and from trusted individuals in government. During!

nance by the United States in world economic markets. (Heilbrunn) Heilbrunn says that Leffler's A Preponderance of Power, has become the "sacred text of the neo-revisionists." (Heilbrunn) Leffler claims that U.S. security policy was established between 1940 and 1946 based on geopolitics, not economics. Truman was far from fearing a Soviet military attack and was defending American economic stability guaranteeing there would not be a return to the economics of the 1930's and wanted to create a Wilsonian liberal democratic order led by the United States. Leffler stated that "they were worried that the Kremlin might exploit these weaknesses to alter the balance of power... so they harnessed the economic principles of the open door to the national security interests of the United States. (Heilbrunn) Leffler describes the Cold War in this way: "...neither the Americans nor the Soviets sought to harm the other in 1945... The protests that each country's actions evoked from the other fuele!

and in Southeast Asia, China and Chiang Kai-Shek were involved in a civil war, with the United States as Chaing's protector. Other areas of conflict were the Sinai peninsula and the Suez-Canal. Attempts to introduce democracy to European countries such as Hungary and West Berlin had been stopped by Russian tanks. In Eisenhower's era, Moore states, "Third World leaders had already become adept at playing Americans and Russians off one another." (Moore) This is because the United States and Soviet Russia were trying to build allies. When Israel invaded Egypt in 1956 in order to gain control of the Suez canal, they were supported by the U.S. Allies in Europe. Moore states "Eisenhower was in a bind. If the United States supported its friends- the British, French and Israelis- Nasser might turn to the Soviet Union for help. After that, anything could happen." (Moore) Eisenhower cautiously condemned the invasion to the United Nations. The invading troops withdrew and the Soviets sta!

this time there was an outpouring of film and TV shows dealing d

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